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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07
Rheumatism

IL is an established fact that Hoods Sar-
saparilla has proven an invaluable remedy
in many severe cases Of rheumatism, effect
ing remarkable cures by its powerful action
in correcting the acidity of the blood, which
is the cause of the disease, and purifying
and enriching the vital fluid.
1t IS certainly fair to assume that what
Hoods SarsapariIla has done for others it
will do for you. Therefore, Ii you suffer
the pains and aches of rheumatism, give
this potent remedy fair trial
A Positive Cure.
81 was troubled very much with rheuma-
tism in my hips, ankles, and wrists. l
could hardly walk, and was confined TO my
bed good deal Of the time. Being rec
commended to try Hoods Sarsaparilla,
took four bottles and am perfectly well.
cheerfully recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla
as one of the best blood purifiers in the
world" w. +. WooD, Bloomington, Ill.
For Twenty Years
Ihaye been afflicted with rheumatism. Before
1883 found 10 relief, but grew worse. l then
began taking Hoods Sarsaparilia, and il did
ne more good than all the other medicine |
ever had'' II. T. BALLOON, Shirley, Mass.
II suffered from what the doctors called
muscular rheumatism. l took Hoods Sar-
saparilla and am entirely cured" J. Y. 4.
PRoUDFooT, letter carrier, Chicago, III.
We shall be glad to send, free of charge
10 all who may desire, 4 book containing many
additional statements of cures by
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists 81 six for S. Made
cnly by CT. HOOD & GO, Lowell, Mass
100 Doses Ore Dollar.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

Many people at Moore, Neb., are using
corn for fuel, claiming that it is cheaper
than cosl or wood.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

HAYES & Steelman, Of Sierra City.
Gal found a nugget valued at 500 in
their mine. and Hsye, has it on exhibi-
ton in San Francisco.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

A fish company in Bayfield, Lake
Superior, hiss tons OF whitefsh, trout
aud herring frozen and corded up.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

RALEIGH n. c., Jan. I'm the house
Wednesday J. r. Webster, nominee Of the
Independent Democrats, was elected speaker
by two majority over the regular Democratic
nominee The Republicans voted for him.
B. NJ. Mulla, Republican, was elected chief
clerk by two majority over the Democratic
nominee 1t is understood that the other
offices will be divided between Republicans
and Independents. The senate organization
is Democratic
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

G. ". Baily, Of Blair. Neb.. claims to
be driving the sleigh once Used by Brig
ham Young for his family in Utah.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

stockbridge for Michiean's Senator.
LANSING, Mich, Jan. lin the Repub
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

An Indian named Kills Enemy at>night
is waiting trial for murder at Deadwood.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

Floods stone house in Ssn Francisco
cost g.. 100000. The cost of Stanfords
wooden house is estimated al 81 900, 600,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07
OF INTEREST TO PHYSICIANS.


OF Medical Science
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. The secre-
tary of the treasury has sent to the house of
representatives estimates amounting to &, 600
made by the commissioner OF pensions to de-
fray the expenses of collecting statistics rela-
alive to the ultimate influence of surgical
operations upon the nervous system, the cir
culatory system, and nutrition Medical
Referee Campbell states in a letter to the
commissioner of pensions, AMI the document
is inclosed in those sent to the house, that in
view of the fact that medical literature is
very deficient in respect to the ultimate in
fuence of surgical operations upon the nerv-
/ Gus system, the circuiatnry system
and nutrition, scientific investigation
of these result is matter of very great I'M
portance not only to the me lical profession,
but to mankind at large, in view of the
important fact that arising out Of the great
est war on record, and the operations of the
| most magnificent armies the world has ever
produced, the archives of the pension Office
afford the widest field of observation hitherto
presented, and it is even now becoming less
extended by the passing away OF our manned
veterans. Ten Thousand men, he says, have
withstood amputatlons of some important
member of the body, while the number of re-
sections-an operation more interesting from
a scientific point of view because campara-
lively, with ampu'ation, of recent introduc-
ton, and as preserving the limb in par
TALLY useful state instead of causing its total
loss-is very large. Ii is believed that from
this immense mass of material, only accessi-
BILE through the pension office, many impor-
tant theories may be demonstrated.
Extension of the Postal Note System.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 7.-Superintend-
emit Mcdonald OF the money-order system,
postoffice department, has issued circular
stating that the act approved Jan. 8, 1887,
authorizes tho issue only of postal notes
mot the payment thereof at such postof1ces
other than money-order Offices as the post.
master general may designate Every ap
plication, or petition for the extension of THU
privilege should specify the number Of in
habitants of the place from which it ema
mates, and. briefly. the reasons for desiring
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07

Great Bend, Kan, has built three
churches.the past season, the cost aggre-
eating $4,000.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07
DON'T PAIL TO TRY

Buffalo has natural gas now which is
brought eighty seven miles by pipes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
The Honey Rird Of South Africa.

Wecame to a large piece of timber,
and while passing through it l had my
first experience with the honey bird of
South Africa. The curious little bird is,
in size and plumage. about like an English,
sparrow, and gets his name from the fact
that the little fellow, who is very fond of
honey, being unable to obtain it for HIM
self, will lead men to the places where
the wild bees have hidden their stores of
rich, wild honey. Whenever this bird
secs a man he will fly close to him, how
ering around, uttering a twittering sound;
then he will go off in the direction of the
place generally tree where the honey
is, flying backward and forward in a zig
gag fashion. Then hack he will come,
twittering in the same manner. as if to
say Come along; I'll show you where it
is These actions are repeated until the
tree is reached, when the bird will indi-
cate it very plainly by flying to it and
lowering around it. While the bees are
being smoked out and the honey taken
up the bird will hover in the vicinity
until the job is done. when of course his
reward comes in the shape of a feast on
the fragments that are left--American
Field
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28

For nifty wears the Queen has r6tsned-brinx
tiiadem and globe,
Crown her once more whose womanhood Is
spotless royal robe;
To the lady through enlightened lands let broad
white banners float,
From the loftiest heights Of foremost thought
and the East the most remote
The hand b white lily bloom, but a
sovereignty should be strong.
Potent tn strike the oppressor down and
right the subjects wrong
She has So ruled that savage spears Redeemed
with Christian blood,
Gordon despaired and ruin reared DER
Egypt like a Hood
And tits fitting that DER Ireland wronged, as
on her city's walls.
| The blac kest flag that could be found should
shadow ruined halls;
Darkest of all the nameless crimes a rulers
soul may dare,
IL that which bids brothers hand crush
brother To despair
Honor to Cork-s.s unto all whatever his place
or name,
Who Kings upon the winds of Heaven the
truth to iioat like fiaEie;
Let the Free glad airs that lift the folds Of that
dark sign of woe,
Attest tn Heaven the fetfered hands that
may not guard its flow
TEAR down the flag. disgrace the man." is
flashed from London town,
But after years will tribute pay to "A hope
that will not down."
An truest hearts will hold the man who showed
the nations truth
Above the Queen whose thrones fraud,
whose rule il Ireland's ruth
Victorian jubilee by hosting IA black flag i'm
sign of mourning.l
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
Palatka's Charter.

The Seville Independent has this to saw
about the new charter for this civ:
The PALArKA DAILY NEWS il iustly
and eioquently indignant over the mex
cusahie Numbering of the Senate Enroll
ing Clerk IN re-enrolling as a part of the
new amended Palatka charter long list
o' sections from the original bill which
nan Deem distinctly left out by both
houses of the Legislature i'm the final
passage of the bill as amended The
NEWS also charges that Senators Chand-
E., OF Marion, and Fowler. of Putnam,
either volunteered or were requested by
the Senate Committee ON Enrolled Bills
10 compare the enrolled copy with the
Dbl as 1t passed the two houses. which
they did, and reported the same to the
committee correctly enrolled when
I'M fact it was not. To these charges
each of the Senators replies with an ex-
piantlon which does not explain. II
would be exceedingly interesting t.
KNOW which of the two held and READ
the enrolled bill, and which one ..helt
copy Any one who has ever done
either knows how easy it would be 70,
one OF the two to declare the work cor
rect when IT was not, without the othe
knowing the truth. We don't charg,
either with doing this; we only call al
tention to the ease with which one o
two persons engaged in such dut,
could deceive each other: and tina
therefore there is no presumptio,
OF conspiracy in the case of the Pa
latka charter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
Col. Sellers Still Alive.

John T. Raymond Is dead, but Col.
parlors of the Fifth avenue a miniature
railroad, made of wood, has been built
to illustrate the practicability of ''bicy-
Gle railroad car" A single track under
meath and one overhead are all that is
necessary, according to the inventor s
plan. Two wheels above and below the
car are supposed to be sufficient to hold
it in place, while it is run through the
grooves like a shuttlecock at the rate of
100 miles an hour. The man who is re-
sponsible for this bicycle car is very en-
thusiastic over it. He was figuring on
its prospective value the other day while
talking with a capitalist, whom he wanted
to interest in the scheme to the extent of
$50. Il will give you 800, 900 worth
of stock outright" he went on, land an
option on 81 900, 900 at par"
.'How much do you estimete it will be
worth at the end of six months?' inquired
the man of money.
"A hundred to one," was the reply.
Every dollar of stock will be worth
800"
LET me see," said the capitalist. If
took 800, 900 now that would he
S1.OOO.O0O. Then suppose | called my
option on 81 900, 900 of stock at par, that
would be $IOO, 900, 900 more. making me
worth SfO1 ZOO, 900 in six months.
guess I'll invest $50 as a flyer. New
York Sun.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
The HohenxoIIerns' SkuIls-

By order of the German crown prince,
Professor Virchow has recently made a
physiognomic examination of the skulls
of those members of the Hohenzollern
family, whose remains are deposited in
the vaults of the Berlin dome, for the
purpose of discovering certain character
istic traits, such as are known to exist in
the Hapsburg and Bourbon families.
The result of these studies is, of course,
not to be made public. Certain connois-
seurs declare that such n family trait is
not discernible in the Hohenzollerns,
although certain physiognomies repeat
themselves frequently, some representing
the late King Frederick William Nv, the
others the present Emperor William.
There is, for instance. q great resemblance
between Frederick William Nv and the
elector Johann Cicero, rs may be seen by
the bronze statue of the latter in the
dome, the work of the famous Peter Wis
cher.--Boston Transcript.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28

The ladies Of Lima are all eyes. They
have the reputation of being, as class,
the most beautiful in the world, and
meeting them on the way to mass in the
morning or shopping later in the day
one can see how they obtained il; but
knowing them in their homes the opinion
changes, and you conclude, after calm
reflection, that they are not so pretty as
the women of New York. 1t is the
nanta which they wear in such a
coquettish way that gives them their
reputation for beauty, for it conceals
every feature except their bewitching
eyes and lovely olive complexion. Nc
matter how ugly her mouth or her nose
is; no matter how high her cheek bones
or large her ears; no matter whether she
is as scrawny as a scarecrOw OK as bald
as a bat, a manta will make any woman
with pretty eyes look handsome, and,
like charity, it covers a multitude of sins.
This garment, which is peculiar to Peru,
and is worn by ladies Of all ages and
social positions. from the presidents wife
to the laundress who comes after you
linen, is a sort of foster sister to the
mantilla of SPAIN 1t is usually of crepf
from China, and costs anywhere from
$40 to $500, according to its quality
Buenos Ayres Herald.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
The Drainage Lands.

The Pensacola Commercial, i'm criti-
cism ON our review of the late discussion
ON the operations of the Disston Drain
age Company, has this to say:
1.-THE deciding of this land to Disston
by Bloxham's administration was "a
fraud upon the State, and if Perry's adj
ministration allows Disston to retain it.
and steps are not taken by him for its
reclamation. and for the cancellation
of the deeds issued i'm Bloxham's day,
the present administration makes itself %
party to the fraud that has been perpe-
trated."
In reply, we accept the proposition
as stated by our logical mporary,
and shall hold him to Ia. v ord. Mr.
Disston has placed the whole matter in
the hands of 1.-The Perry administrations
and the lands ,rM be held By the State
subject TO the contract, to be returned
to the company ,chen they shall be earned.
The matter only waits till the lawyers
representing the State can put their
formative hands to the details and Mr.
Disston and Colonel Kreamer stand
ready to proceed with the work of earn
ing pr1ncipality to which they concede
they have as yet no title i'm equity. We
trust our respected contemporary, whose
criticism has been so ready. will not hes
itate to award proper credit when the
time comes, for we claim an implied
promise in the threat he expresses. The
''steps for the reclamation of the land
have already been takers as our critic
might learn from slight knowledge of
current history-we shall soon call upon
him to give judgment upon the result.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
Gypsies Improved by Prosperity.

The fact is that the prosperity of the
American gypsies has permanently soft
ened the asperity of their natures typified
i'm some of Greilman's olden gypsies. in
tensified i'm SCOTS Meg Merrilies" into
Q dreadful witch, and given a most I'M
fair and prejudiciai grotesqueness by even
SO earnest a man as Barrow. Gypsies
may occasionally sing their barbaric
ballads under the trees as a weird minor
to the song birds above; and you may
keep reading ON and on of the wolfish
gypsy of old, or brighten your child with
tales of gypsy horrors; but that sort of
gypsy is as much of wrath of the past
as the tale teller who will thus maunder
about him ought to be-
In a quarter century's frequent COM
panionship with these people, 1 have
never found an i'll natured, dishonest or
an actually mean gypsy. i think it
would be difficult to find in this country a
Jail record OF a gypsy. While city gypsies
are never winsome and are altogether
uninteresting. the gypsies of the tent and
the road are ever the simplest, the easiest
pleased, the most jOvial, the kindest
hearted of men. Possibly the original
devil has not bleached out of the women
SO rapidly. They are 10th to give up
their handy black art tricks But as a
whole women and men are good i do
not mean religious and pretentious and
pharisaic; for the gypsy has no more use
for your pulpits than your politics. But
he is morally clean, wholesome, win
somely merry, grandly loyal, upright
and downright good, without making an
aggressive and offensive virtue of it. In
deed. his goodness is of that unconscious
and glowing sort that contrasts with
civilized actualities strangely. There
may be no merit in it. 1t simply is so.
1t is of kind delightful and restful to
know.-Edgar L. Wakeman's Letter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28

Every fruit known will make cider.
That from pears is of ancient renown as
perry, hut pear juice Is worth more for
sirup or fruit honey, as it IL rich i'm sugar.
Plum cider II very nice. and grape cider
will yet bc the American beverage, nav
ing the strengthening quality of wine
without its alcoholic spirit, and tasting
better than anything known in the shape
OF drinks There would not be a grape
too many in the United States if the
Juice. freshly drawn from the clusters,
unIilutcsl. could be placed on sale in our
cities. Its delicious. pare refreshment
jusiifics all that poets have sung and
writer's rayed about the blood of the
grape, ~vhile for benefit to feeble, con-
sump;ivc ar bilious people its Effects out
do hypop!losphites, trip To Italy or
Saratoga waters. In the Erie wine
regions and other vineyard belts. when
th.. grapes riien. sallow. liver congestel
people from cities take beard where they
can drink the must Of new wine as il
comes from the press. and return built
up for the winters dissipation Con-
sumptives, especially, cannot do bettes
than To try the grape cure in tins FORM
and the vineyard season" may yet be As
fashionabla As the seaside III July or
Lenox in Oct.tsr.-Vick's Magazine.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
The Chloroformists Of Paris.

These gentlemen may he justly con-
sislered as the aristoc:acy of the criminal
class. They are mostly recruited from
the ranks of the hest and most highly
elucated classes Of society, and their
favorite fields Of operation are the rail
way carriages and the hotels. Their
method of procedure In case of the former
is as follows: They 60 to the railway ter
minus of one of the long lines and wait
near the ticket office until they catch
sight Of some traveller who, on opening
his pocketbook to pay his fare. shows that
it is wei, stocked. The chloroformist
buys a ticket for the same destination.
takes n seat in the same compartment,
and, after getting into conversation, either
asks his victim to Join him in a lunch.
which he produces from well filed
basket. or offers him an excellent cigar.
Both the lunch and the cigar have been
carefully prepared" with a strong mar
cote, and if either are accepted the UNI
lucky traveller Ia soon plunged into q
heavy stupor. The chloroformist then
opens little vial, which he generally
keeps hidden inside his hat, and places it
for a few moments under the nOstrils Of
tine sleeper, gently applying to the mouth
at the same time a sheet of fine parch-
ment, having the shape of carnival
mask, for the purpose of excluding the
fresh air
The victim is thus quickly rendered
wholly insensible, and the thief is able to
commence his operations in perfect safe
". He takes possession of the pocket
hook and empties it of all its contents ex-
cept few notes of small value. and then
replaces it i'm the pocket from which he
has taken it, leaving the victims jewelry
and coined money untouched. Having
removed the parchment mask from the
face of the sleeper, he then leaves the
train at the next big station. The traveller
on awakening and finding himself alone
in the compartment instinctively looks to
see if his watch and chain and coined
money are all right, and on finding them
so does not usually take the trouble of
investigating his pOcketbook, so that the
theft has a chance of remaining undis-
covered for several days. Frequently,
however, the victim does not awake at
all, but dies from the effects of the an
aesthetic. The authorities finding them
selves in the presence of a corpse which
does not present the slightest traces of
violence. and with the money, papers ana
jewelry apparently undisturbed, can only
attribute the death to natural causes. and
rs rule do not even insist on an autopsy.
New York World.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-28
NOT AvERse TO BLOOD.
An Important Trait Viewed y Humal
Observation-Disclosures

An Important Trait Viewed y Human
Observation-Disclosures
As Rochefoucauld says, there is some
thing in the misfortunes Of our very
friends that does not altogether displease
US, and an apostle of peace will feel
certain vicious thrill run through him
and enjoy a vicarious brutality as he
turns to the column in his newspaper at
the top of which shocking atrocity"
stands printed in large capitals. See how
the crowd hocks round a street brawll
Consider the enormous annual sale Of
revolvers to persons, not one in 200 of
whom has any serious intention of using
Them but of whom each one has his car
nivorous self consciousness agreeably
tickled by the notion, as he clutches the
handle Of his weapon, that he viii lie
rather a dangerous customer to meet.
See the ignoble crew that escorts every
great pugilist-parasites who feel as if the
glory of his brutality rubbed off upon
them, and whose darling hope from day
to day is to arrange some set to, of which
they may share the rapture without en-
during the painsi The first blows at
prize fight are apt to make refined
spectator sick, but his blood is soon up in
favor of one party, and it will seem as If
the other fellow could not be hanged and
pOunQeu ana fndnSletl tuOubu-tit IT,
fined spectator would like to reinforce the
blows himself. Over the sinister orgies
of blood % certain depraved and insane
persons let a curtain be drawn, as well as
over the ferocity with which otherwise
fairly decent men may be animated, when
(at the soaking of a town, for instanse)
the excitement of victory long delayed.
the sudden freedom of rapine and lust,
the contagion of the crowd, and the inn
pulse to initiate and Guido, all combine to
swell the blind drunkenness of the killing
instinct and carry it to its extreme.
Mol Those who try to account for
this from above downward, as If it re-
suited from the consequences of the VIC
tory being rapidly inferred. and from the
agreeable sentiments associated with them
in the imagination, have missed the root
of the matter. Our ferocity is blind and
can only be explained from below.
Could we trace it back through our line
of descent we should see it taking more
and more the form of fatal reflex re-
Spouse, and at the same time becoming
more and more the pure and direct
emotion that it is.-Popuiar Science
Monthly.